Dilithium is NOT used to generate power. It's crystalline matrices is one (of the very few) things that can properly and safely mix matter and anti-matter so that it (m-a/m) can power the drive.
Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 4x03 - "Choose to Live"
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Dilithium is NOT used to generate power. It's crystalline matrices is one (of the very few) things that can properly and safely mix matter and anti-matter so that it (m-a/m) can power the drive.
I saw someone complain on Facebook today that Discovery doesn't have enough space battles compared to the previous TV series.
It was a power source in TOS.
Yup, and appeared to be treated as such all the way up to Star Trek 4.
So far none has been given. In fact there is no background at all on before the joining, apart from being engaged with grey and on a generational ship that for some odd reason was cruising near sol and couldn’t avoid random asteroids.
thanks.
I may have turned it off at the handcuff scene, but did they really arrest her? IDK what rubbed me the wrong way about that episode..
Maybe the whole trope of "person went to extreme lengths to do good thing, now we have to punish them"
IDK I really don't like the idea of starfleet officers having handcuffs and arrest powers
Maybe the whole trope of "person went to extreme lengths to do good thing, now we have to punish them"
IDK I really don't like the idea of starfleet officers having handcuffs and arrest powers
She did “good things” killing and committing piracy and without a real reason, sure they arrested her. She got off lightly, apparently, actually.
Again a thread that I'm watching didn't show up in the alerts, so I gotta respond to 5 days of posts now...
(just kidding!!)
(That was unintentionally Tamarianish.)
"This is a ball, Molly!"
(just kidding!!)
Sloan, when they expected him.
(That was unintentionally Tamarianish.)
If the badges can't handle foot steps, and the holos can't handle blinking, why would fabrics handle anything mildly destructive? XD
But only on the bridge. And Book's ship.
I really like how it's not the usual hyperfast Matrix stile nonsense that Georgiou uses in her fights, but Kira's movements in that scene actually prepare, move, gather strength again... those little breaks in between that show that fighting Klingons hand-to-hand is actually tedious and exhausting...
NO. Anti-Matter was the power source. Dilithium focused the mixture (it was the only "mineral" that could.
TOS played very fast-and-loose over how exactly dilithium was used. In fact, IIRC, it was referred to as "lithium" early on in Season 1 before they started solidifying its properties. Back then, Vulcans were also called "Vulcanians". 
There were some scenes where the warp nacelles seemed to be the source of Enterprise's power, not M/AM intermix. We started seeing the currently-accepted intermix tech in TMP's refit engine room, but it really came into its own in TNG, where the crystals were sitting smack-dab in the junction between the M/AM injection tubes. Prior to that, they were located all over the ship, in wall consoles, in that double-tank think in the floor in engineering, etc. Back in the early days of Trek, they worried less about technobabble and how things "actually" worked, in favor of writing interesting stories and exploring the human condition. I miss those days sometimes...
There were some scenes where the warp nacelles seemed to be the source of Enterprise's power, not M/AM intermix. We started seeing the currently-accepted intermix tech in TMP's refit engine room, but it really came into its own in TNG, where the crystals were sitting smack-dab in the junction between the M/AM injection tubes. Prior to that, they were located all over the ship, in wall consoles, in that double-tank think in the floor in engineering, etc. Back in the early days of Trek, they worried less about technobabble and how things "actually" worked, in favor of writing interesting stories and exploring the human condition. I miss those days sometimes...
No.
I kind of like the idea of some dilithium crystals being located in an adjacent control room away from Main Engineering and having the energy flow routed to the warp core. It's a good safety measure that could potentially let the ship keep its crystals intact even if Main Engineering took a major hit from enemy fire or suffered some devastating explosion.
They have brigs and prisons, yet handcuffs and arrest powers are a step too far?
Because it came up again and again in critiques for this episode that J'Vini could have talked to her sisters about details of her mission, i think i have a possible explanation why that didn't happen.
There could be rules that forbid talking about details of current missions with other members of the order to prevent inner conflicts for example.
A hypothetical scenario to consider:
What if there is a client of the Qowat Milat for example who wants a high ranking person with many enemies assassinated in a certain way, for a reason, with everyone knowing that he/she died because of the vendetta with this special client.
And then the potential victim, who has another Qowat Milat as a protector.
Think that things like both missions happening in this scenario at the same time, which could both be considered lost causes, could make such rules necessary
There could be rules that forbid talking about details of current missions with other members of the order to prevent inner conflicts for example.
A hypothetical scenario to consider:
What if there is a client of the Qowat Milat for example who wants a high ranking person with many enemies assassinated in a certain way, for a reason, with everyone knowing that he/she died because of the vendetta with this special client.
And then the potential victim, who has another Qowat Milat as a protector.
Think that things like both missions happening in this scenario at the same time, which could both be considered lost causes, could make such rules necessary
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Nope. Rewatch TOS.
I always felt that the device Spock was fiddling with in TWOK contained the dilithium crystals during that stage of Enterprise's existence. It would explain why there was so much energy getting blown out of that pedestal. Although, superior Vuclan physiology or not, being directly physically exposed to the intermix energy there, probably would have vaporized him within seconds and drilled a hole through the outer hull within a minute.
That's a good theory. The pedestal in the radiation chamber could be where dilithium crystals interacted with warp plasma and the byproducts were too dangerous to just leave unshielded with newer, more advanced warp reactor tech developed since TOS. The crystals in Season 3 of TOS were stored in the articulation frame cylinder that rose from the structures in the middle of the Engine Room so perhaps that was the TOS version of the TWOK pedestal.
Turns out Jammer liked this episode. He gave it three stars out of four. I dipped in briefly and posted in the Comments Section. I do that sometimes.
I post there under my real name. Not hard to figure out who I am.
Yeah, I picked up on it a while ago.
I would use my real name, but "Lord Garth" is the one I've been known for by the Star Trek community since 1996. So, it is what it is.
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